Targeting Speed Limits_Engel Prendergast (WALGA)
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Targeting the speed limits Engel Prendergast RoadWise Regional Team Leader 16 November 2009
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Why
• Road trauma – public health problem
speed limit travel speed travel speed crashes (number and
severity)• But….. travel speed travel time resistance
to speed limit
Local Government
• 72% of state’s road network• No role in setting or enforcing speed limits• Unpopular • Shared responsibility
Leading change
• Changing community demands and expectations• Urban speed limit trials• Town of Vincent – Fitzgerald, Beaufort, Oxford • Safe system – Town of Cambridge